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She said: "I don't want your readers ever to think they have to have it all."

The Oscar-winning actress claimed was possible to have a good career and excel at motherhood but not necessarily at the same time.

Maggie Gyllenhaal, who was being interviewed alongside Thompson and who stars with her in the sequel of Nanny McPhee, said the older actress had inspired her to put her own husband, Peter Sarsgaard, first more often.

Gyllenhaal, who has a three year-old daughter called Romana, claimed that behaving as a "classical" wife "feels really right to me".